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Among the artists from 40 countries at the World Body Painting Festival 2009 was Nguyen Thi My Hanh from Vietnam. Nguyen Thi My Hanh at the World Body Painting Festival 2009. Body painting comes to Vietnam Pity body art New trend for body art Ngo Luc and body paintings A graduate of the HCM City [...]
Cu Da village in Thanh Oai district, Hanoi is known for its traditional industry of making vermicelli, which has been preserved for hundreds of years. Nowadays, dozens of families in Cu Da are still involved in this traditional job. Let’s see how they produce vermicelli through photos: There are several stages in producing vermicelli: selecting [...]
By April 1, 2009, Vietnam had 85.789 million people, of which 49.5 percent were men and 50.5 percent women. Vietnam is the third most-populated country in Southeast Asia and 13th in the world, announced the General Statistics Office’s chief Nguyen Duc Hoa on August 13. According to the General Statistics Department, in the last ten [...]
The Hanoi Environmental Protection Bureau’s chief Nguyen Van Luong told VietNamNet that three out of five rubbish dumps in Hanoi are nearly full. The Nam Son rubbish dump in Soc Son district, Hanoi. Luong said that after the capital city’s expansion last August, the total rubbish volume discharged a day is around 5000 tonnes, including [...]
Wastewater is directly discharged to Ba Bo Canal. To treat pollution at the seriously-polluted canal of Ba Bo, which is called the “Canal of Death”, HCM City will need 744 billion dong (over $41 million), doubling its previous calculation. Research has revealed that the 1700km Ba Bo canal, which runs from HCM City to the [...]
Walking through the Red Square in Moscow or visiting the Eiffel Tower in Paris is only a dream for many Vietnamese people. Ha Noi could make plans with these capitals to have their names here. But now these dreams may come true in a way without them leaving home, if a project to form 36 [...]
The People’s Committee has been told the ban is against State laws HCM City’s ban on advertising on public buses should be lifted, the Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism has told the municipal People’s Committee in an official dispatch on Tuesday. A bus terminal in HCM City. The city’s ban on bus advertisements should [...]
A tropical low pressure is forecast to gain strength and turn into a tropical storm – the sixth storm of this year, warned the National Hydro-meteorological Forecast Centre on August 3. At 7am on August 3, the eye of the storm was situated at 18.3 degrees north latitude and 115.7 degrees east longitude, around 400km [...]
The Phan Chu Trinh-Tran Hung Dao intersection in Hanoi flooded on July 20 after heavy early morning rains. Hanoi needs more money to save itself from floods like those that killed 20 people and caused trillions of dong worth of damage last year. The rainy season in the capital city usually starts in August and [...]
Roasted grasshoppers is a popular cuisine among urban drinkers. A kilo of grasshoppers is priced between 25,000-30,000. Catching grasshoppers is now a lucrative job for many farmers in My Duc district, Hanoi. My Duc people sell around 2-3 tonnes of grasshoppers to restaurants in Hanoi and neighbouring provinces a day. The demand for this insect [...]